This volume examines the history of modern India and its contemporary transformation, providing an account of the changes which are shaking India today at the beginning of the 21st century. When India was invented as a "modern" country in the years after Independence in 1947, it…
"Reinventing India examines the history of modern India and its contemporary transformation, providing a lucid and eminently readable of the changes which are shaking India today."--Jacket.
"Reinventing India examines the history of modern India and its contemporary transformation, providing a lucid and eminently readable of the changes which are shaking India today."--Jacket.
"Reinventing India examines the history of modern India and its contemporary transformation, providing a lucid and eminently readable of the changes which are shaking India today."--Jacket.
When India was invented as a ""modern"" country in the years after Independence in 1947 it styled itself as a secular, federal, democratic Republic committed to an ideology of development. Nehru's India never quite fulfilled this promise, but more recently his vision of India ha…
"Reinventing India examines the history of modern India and its contemporary transformation, providing a lucid and eminently readable of the changes which are shaking India today."--Jacket.
"This book considers the remarkable transformations that have taken place in India since 1980, a period that began with the assassination of the formidable Prime Minister Indira Gandhi. Her death, and that of her son Rajiv seven years later, marked the end of the Nehru-Gandhi er…
This book considers the remarkable transformations that have taken place in India since 1980, a period that began with the assassination of the formidable Prime Minister Indira Gandhi. Her death, and that of her son Rajiv seven years later, marked the end of the Nehru-Gandhi era…
"This book considers the remarkable transformations that have taken place in India since 1980, a period that began with the assassination of the formidable Prime Minister Indira Gandhi. Her death, and that of her son Rajiv seven years later, marked the end of the Nehru-Gandhi er…
"This book considers the remarkable transformations that have taken place in India since 1980, a period that began with the assassination of the formidable Prime Minister Indira Gandhi. Her death, and that of her son Rajiv seven years later, marked the end of the Nehru-Gandhi er…